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While cryonics isn't proven science yet, we have frozen dogs, pigs, and other animals and revived them after a few days. I'm sorry, you are mistaken. The large
by ggreer 13y ago
While cryonics isn't proven science yet, we have frozen dogs, pigs, and other animals and revived them after a few days.
I'm sorry, you are mistaken. The largest reversibly-cryopreserved chunk of mammal so far has been a rabbit kidney. The kidney was cryopreserved, re-warmed, and transplanted back into the rabbit. The untreated kidney was removed. The rabbit recovered and survived until the researchers euthanized it for autopsy 6 weeks later. Autopsy showed some areas where the cryoprotectant hadn't reached, so the kidney wasn't perfectly healthy. The whole paper is at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2781097/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2781097/